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Wednesday, August 10, 2016

There have been some delays, but earlier this summer ODOT finally came out with the final list for the "All Roads Transportation Safety" grants. Salem received several, including funding for the buffered bike lanes and enhanced crosswalks identified in the Commercial-Vista Corridor Study. A few other sites are identified for modern green colored urban bike lanes. There's also a road diet for Broadway around Pine Street. (The full list of projects is a spreadsheet here.)

Buffered bike lanes on Commercial
(yellow highlighting added)

This is a lightly edited excerpt, not wholly decoded or unpacked. If you see something particularly interesting, please say so, and maybe there will be reason to come back and look more closely at this or that project.

Some of the projects look like the piggy-back on others: The Fairview@12th, Marion@12th, Lancaster@Market for example look like they build off of planned or already complete projects.

Most of the projects are pretty autoist, but several have meaningful components for people who walk and bike.Salem Projects

Southbound continuation on Commercial at Liberty
may not be included in this round of funding

We'll need to learn more about the exact final locations of the beacons and enhanced crosswalks on Commercial (one was deleted when the project was at the Planning Commission) and it's not clear that improved southbound crossing for the dysfunction junction y-intersection with Liberty is also included.

The road diet for Broadway is promising and it will be interesting to learn how far south it goes - the four-lane section really starts at Pine, so it's probably just north to the Parkway.

And we'll also want to find out more about when the funds will be programmed and when these will actually be constructed.

None of these are transformative, but they will be incremental improvements.

Not making the cut for funding were the 25th Street separated bike path and improved crossings on Center and Marion Streets.

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